The purpose of this paper is to explore how local residents and external resources can collaborate to promote traditional industries. The study was conducted by assessing the actual situation of the cultural tourism plan currently in place in the Tachikui district of Konda-cho, Tamba Sasayama City, Tamba, a Tamba pottery production area, and by referring to previous studies related to collaboration between external resources and the local community. As a result, it was found that although local residents had potential autonomy, measures for industrial development had stagnated due to municipal mergers. The study also found that the new perspectives and human linkages with external resources seen in recent years have triggered the advancement of traditional industrial community development projects that had long been in a state of stagnation.